The role of interest in the transmission of social values

The environment is so rich with information that our cognitive system would be overloaded without a way to evaluate what is relevant for our needs and goals. Appraisal theory has shown how emotions, by ‘tagging’ the environment with differential values, enable the attribution of our attentional reso...

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Main Authors: Fabrice eClément, Daniel eDukes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00349/full